“At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from t...” — Bob Edwards Quote

“At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.”

“I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.”

“I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.”

“Good things just keep happening.”

“Public radio has always been so powerless.”

“I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.”

“I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.”

“I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany.”

“I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.”

“I'm hard-wired to view everything that Albany does through the lens of a local town, city, county official.”

“I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.”

“I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.”